EVA International – Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art, opened in Limerick on 16 April and runs till 17 July 2016. Entitled Still (the) Barbarians, it features 57 international artists, selected through an open and invited call for proposals. Still (the) Barbarians is curated by Koyo Kouoh, the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, Dakar and the curator […] More

ifa Gallery Berlin hosts a month-long research and exhibition project Politics of Sharing – On Collective Wisdom in cooperation with Artspace NZ Auckland and inviting the transdisciplinary collective KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre from Indonesia to transform the space into a temporary radio station. Open Space: Radio KUNCI @ ifa Gallery Berlin 14 April – 14 May 2016 What […] More

As part of the 400th anniversary celebrations of Arita, the home of Japan’s first porcelain, the 2016/ project led by creative directors from Japan and the Netherlands presents a new collection of contemporary porcelain in Milan and Amsterdam using the specialist skills found in the pottery town of Arita. The project commemorates the cooperation and exchange between […] More

‘Now Watching’ is an exhibition of French and Korean contemporary art at CEEAC in Strasbourg, celebrating 10 years of artist in residence exchanges between CEEAC (Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines) and the National Art Studio of Changdong and Goyang managed by the National Museum of modern and contemporary art, Seoul. It is organised in the […] More

CES Summer School will be held in Espinho, Portugal 5-7 September on ‘Artistic and other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience’. Applications are invited from researchers (multidisciplinary), graduate students and post-docs, artists, and practitioners working with community-based artistic and sustainability/resilience initiatives. Deadline for applications: 1st May 2016 Thematic area(s) of the course Artistic and […] More

The European Artistic Crafts Days will be celebrated across Europe on 1, 2 and 3 April 2016. Led by an initiative developed in France for the last ten years, in 2016 special events such as exhibitions, ateliers, craft tours, workshops and masterclasses will be held in crafts studios and venues in 19 countries. The Institut National […] More

KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography festival returns for the 4th edition with 13 groundbreaking exhibitions under the theme « Circle of Life ». Created by French photographer Lucille Reyboz and light artist Yusuke Nakanishi, KYOTOGRAPHIE is held annually over four weeks during the height of the spring tourist season in Kyoto, Japan. The 4th edition of the Festival will be held […] More

Korea is Guest of Honour for the Art Paris Art Fair, 31 March – 3 April 2016. This invitation under the leadership of guest curator Sang-A Chun is the last of a trilogy of editions dedicated to exploring the art scenes of the East. It reveals the striking richness of the art scene from “the land […] More

Applications from high-level professionals worldwide are invited for a 10-day international seminar to be organised in Paris this June on ‘Contemporary artistic creation in the digital age’. It is held in English and offered by France’s Ministry of Culture and Communications. Seminar dates: Wednesday, June 1st to Friday, June 10th 2016 Deadline for applications: 13 April 2016 Context […] More

MOOC MANAGING THE ARTS: CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS IN TRANSITION – the free mentored open online course developed by the Goethe-Institut – returns for a new programme starting 14 April 2016. In its first iteration in 2015, the course created a truly global learning community. More than 17,000 people from 176 countries joined the course and worked on more than 75 […] More

From 18-20 March, an online international exhibition and event WATER WORKS ! presents and debates artworks responding to how art, science, design and activism can reinstate the social, cultural and environmental value of water. Initiated and hosted by Waterwheel, an online platform developed by intermedia artist Suzon Fuks, Inkahoots and Igneous in Australia, the works exhibited […] More

“Mapping Out, In & About” is the inaugural symposium of the newly-established Asian Dramaturgs’ Network (ADN), held in Singapore on April 23 and 24. The symposium will feature the gathering of more than 15 Asian-based dramaturgs from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines and Australia. The symposium’s theme, “Mapping Out, In […] More

WING Platform for Performance in Hong Kong presents performances by contemporary Swiss artists working in territory crossover between dance, performance and visual arts. Gold by Alexandra Bachzetsis on March 20th and Duchesses by Marie-Caroline Hominal & François Chaignaud on March 26th. Gold and Duchesses are two performances by contemporary Swiss artists working in the exciting no-man’s-land that is the crossover of […] More

The Setouchi Triennale 2016 opens 20 March on the beautiful islands of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. The 3rd edition of the Triennale is organised in three seasons (spring, summer and autumn) and features specially commissioned site-specific artworks and performance by internationally acclaimed artists from around the world, including Sou Fujimoto (Japan), Christian Boltanski […] More

‘Enterprising culture’ is the theme of the 8th International Meeting of the Forum d’Avignon in Bordeaux, France, taking place 31 March – 1 April 2016, with a distinguished international panel of speakers, including politicians, artists, cultural entrepreneurs, cartoonists, architects and more … Since their creation in 2007, the International meetings of the Forum d’Avignon have […] More

The upcoming 20th #SydneyBiennale titled The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed will feature more than 80 artists from 34 countries, with around half coming from various parts of Asia. The Biennale of Sydney runs 18 March – 5 June 2016. Selected performances and public programs will be presented around Sydney from […] More

Villa Empain, a jewel of Brussels’ Art Deco architectural heritage now restored as a centre for art and dialogue between the cultures of the East and the West, presents an exhibition of contemporary Korean abstract art. ‘When Process becomes Form’ runs to April 24th 2016. When Process becomes Form is the first comprehensive presentation in […] More

Kyoto Experiment takes place 3-27 March 2016. The international performing arts festival Kyoto Experiment transmits culture from Kyoto out across the world. Now with a new venue in the form of ROHM Theatre Kyoto, the sixth festival includes leading new artists destined for the theater history books of the future and continues to be inspired by […] More

The forthcoming edition of MuseumNext, the major international conference on the future of museums takes place in Dublin 18-20 April 2016. Registration is open. Wide-ranging programme covers topics such as how to make a MOOC, maker technologies and culture, future-thinking to build resilience and what a playful museum looks like. If you are a museum professional, at director […] More

Travelling to venues across the UK, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016, the largest and only programme focusing on Japanese cinema in the UK, returns in 2016 offering an enlightening and expansive introduction to Japanese cinema, exploring issues surrounding the ways people live, and the views towards life and death in Japan. Touring to 13 […] More

Across Asia Film Festival takes place in Cagliari, Sardinia from 22-27 February 2016. It features independent films from Singapore, Japan, Viet Nam and China. The festival marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the republic of Singapore and the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Across Asia Film […] More

The 8th Yangon Photo Festival « Eyewitness: Myanmar by Myanmar Photographers » takes place March 12-31, 2016. Since 2008, the Yangon Photo Festival has trained a whole new generation of Myanmar photographers to visual storytelling. Under the patronage of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, it has become one of the largest international yearly events in Myanmar. […] More

New Zealand Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2016. From 26 February – 20 March, Wellington welcomes New Zealand’s leading arts festival and makers of extraordinary events – ‘Kick up the Arts!’ Among the highlights coming from Asia and Europe: Arquitectura de Feria Arquitectura de Feria is a Catalonian fairground No 8 wire-style, with seven fantastical […] More

Digital Choc 2016 – Futurama – is the 5th edition of the France-Japan digital arts and new media festival taking place in Tokyo 19 February – 21 March. Following the success of the previous editions, and thanks to the solid support of its different partners, the Digital Choc Festival, presenting French-Japanese creativity and collaborations in the fields of digital […] More

Live Arts in Digital Times – the theme of the IETM Spring Plenary Meeting in Amsterdam 14-17 April. How does the digital revolution challenge our creative practices and production, our marketing and audiences’ habits? How do technologic developments open doors for imagination and gain new creative possibilities? Live arts in Digital times will be the main […] More

The first edition of Travel Photo Jaipur, the international outdoor photography festival – ‘A Festival on Wanderlust’, runs in Jaipur, Rajasthan from 5 to 14 February 2016. Travel Photo Jaipur will offer a curated selection of international photography inspired by the notion of journeys and visions as an outsider. The festival exhibitions will be staged at […] More

The exhibition of award-winning works for the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival takes place in Tokyo 3-14 February 2016 at The National Art Center, Tokyo / TOHO CINEMAS Roppongi Hills / SuperDeluxe and other locations. The 19th Japan Media Arts Festival received 4,417 entries from 87 countries and regions in its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation […] More